Miranda Maverick v Maycee Barber ended in a controversial decision win for the latter. While the fight wasn’t exactly one-sided, many commentators and fans disagreed with the judges’ decision to award Barber.
Miranda Maverick addressed the issue with MMA on Sirius. “I really thought I had dominated the first and second round.
“I Don’t Know What They Were Watching”: Maverick SLAMS UFC Judges
I tell everybody, as a fighter, when you’re in there, when you get hit two times in a round, sometimes there’s this thought process of, ‘Oh, I might have lost,’
It’s one of those things that you never know. But I’ve gotten to once you have enough experience, you just know.
You can feel a round out, you know what you did in that round, I know I took her back, I know I dominated. In my view, I dominated the second round. The third round, a lot of people were like, ‘Oh, you stepped back, you got lazy.’
I was tired. I fought about as hard as I could in the first and second round. Maybe I could have done more, getting off the wall. Hindsight is 20/20, you know?”
Miranda Maverick is still only at the beginning of her career, and this delivered only the third loss she’s sustained so far. MMADecisions.com awarded the fight 29-28 to Maverick, but the twenty-two MMA journalists and media members weren’t on the judging panel at the UFC Apex.
Maverick agreed initially. “Either way, after the fight, I definitely thought I had won it.
I had my doubts once they started calling the decision. When they said it was split, I was like, ‘Are you kidding?’ And I almost knew as soon as they said it was a split decision, somewhere inside me I knew I lost.”
Maverick even hinted that the result may have been padded to boost Mayvee Barber’s career. “I think Maycee is very hyped up. You could see on the UFC’s media, she had three posts leading up to fight week. I had zero.
Dana White, she had a post, I had zero. I don’t know why she’s so hyped, maybe it’s because she started out the youngest in the UFC, I don’t know if it’s something they want to push the arrogance that she started out with in her career.
I will say she was respectful to me before the fight and after the fight, I’m not even gonna whine about what she said about winning, anybody would do that. What’re you gonna say? ‘Oh, yeah, I lost that fight.’ No. Nobody’s gonna say that. Giving her crap about it is not right. The judges, however? I don’t know what they were looking at.
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